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Originally Posted by TheCrazier
Alternatively, has anyone tried that App from softrooting that combines all ebooks on the nook in one library? anyone think that might help me?
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I did try soft-rooting, in part, to gain this very same functionality (color cover flow and a combined folder). In reality, I found the color cover flow to be more sizzle and less meat - preferring to see the name/author of my books anyhow, rather than just the cover.
I think softrooting is really neat and applaud everyone involved. For me, at this time, however, the gap between the official B&N firmware and what can be accomplished with softrooting is not all that significant (at least given the way I use the nook) that I reverted back to the 1.3 official firmware (and now 1.4).
Having said that, I regularly read posts about the latest softrooting efforts because I'd have no problem going back to softrooting my nook if the benefits outweighed the minimal hassle - and will likely try it again just for hoots. Unless you're intimidated by the steps involved, softrooting is definitely worth trying - just so you know the possibilities. [Again, I salute those who have made this fun option available to the nook community!!
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Personally, I find my two directories of books (B&N vs. My documents) to be annoying, but already overwhelming anyhow. Combining them into 1 single directory actually makes the lack of book management on the nook all the more cumbersome. (Calibre is likely your best best for content management, at least at this time - major kudos to Kovid, who deserves our donations.)
Yes, B&N needs to add some important functionality (e.g., folder management) and combined cover flow would be nice. The problem for some of us is that, as our collections of books increases, one giant combined parade of color books covers becomes unwieldy anyhow. It's nice eye candy, but practically speaking, picking out a particular book by looking cover by cover in linear fashion is a hard way to select books in the real world (either at a physical bookstore or even at your home library), so it really doesn't lend itself to book selection on an ereader all that well either.
Just my $0.02 - of course different strokes for different folks. Hope these thoughts are useful to you.
Enjoy!